Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 2018

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google Doesn't Use rel=next On a-Elements For Search
Google's rel=next and rel=prev is to indicate pagination as the help docs explain, it launched in September 2011 to solve the issues with paginated content and what content to rank in search.
But those attributes go in the head of your web page...

Google Test One Line Brief AdWords Ads
Google seems to be testing a new format for Google AdWords ads on mobile, which I personally cannot replicate. The ads show in a box of ads which says "ads: more for [your query]" and then it is followed by an icon (probably a favicon) and the URL of the site...

Rohan Ayyar - The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over here.
Rohan Ayyar lives in Ahmedabad, which he calls the SEO capital of India, with his wife of 10 years and his six-year-old son...

Creepy Google Client Mask
Here is a Googler sharing a mask he gets to wear at Google for some of his projects. He shared this on Instagram and wrote "this is what working at Google looks like." I suspect this is used for focu